A British man who spent two decades on death row in the US was sent back to prison yesterday after threatening a judge involved in his original case.

The Boy Scouts of America has come under renewed fire over its controversial ban on gays after it sacked a Tiger Scout leader on the grounds that she was a lesbian.

A T-shirt, as everyone from John Lennon to Robbie Fowler will attest, can be one of the boldest political acts. But for every 100 "Why Always Me?" there are few quite as brave as Maverick Couch's.

Starring: Linda Cardellini, Michael Shannon

The US soldier accused of murdering 16 Afghan civilians in this month's unprovoked shooting spree was $1.5 million (£950,000), in debt and in danger of losing his home, according to reports yesterday.

German police say John Demjanjuk, who was convicted last year of serving as a Nazi death camp guard, has died. 

Diary: The US Visit

In this gruelling Republican primary season, many a battle has been termed make or break, only for hostilities to resume the day after with the balance of forces virtually unchanged. But next Tuesday's contest in Illinois could be the exception.

Mitt Romney's campaign team claimed yesterday that election wins in six out of 10 US states on "Super Tuesday" mean none of his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination can beat him.

While the Republicans were battling it out in Ohio on Super Tuesday, the state also held primary elections for a US Senate seat. In this contest, Dennis Kucinich, the liberal gadfly in Congress who tried to have President George W Bush impeached over the Iraq war, was defeated by a fellow Democrat.

He triumphed on Super Tuesday – just. But doubts are growing that the front-runner can make it all the way to the White House

As the frontrunner heads to the state that could make or break him, David Usborne joins him in Canton

Exasperated with a primary process as protracted as it has been vicious, Republican Party grandees are looking to see if Mitt Romney can at last regain an aura of inevitability in tomorrow's "Super Tuesday" contests across 10 states.

Dark subject matter in graphic novels is nothing new – but a memoir about a childhood with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is up there with the darkest of them.